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[…] Chogyam Trungpa, the man often credited with bringing Buddhism to the west and founder of Naropa University, wrote of the concept he dubbed ‘Spiritual Materialism’– that the ego can cleverly twist a well-intentioned desire for a spiritual life to its own ends. Rather than making the spiritual seeker a humbler person, the ego can turn our desire for enlightenment into a growth of our pride. Spirituality can be distorted into a means for material gain, intellectual status, or escape from reality. Trungpa writes: Walking the spiritual path is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks which lead to a distorted, ego-centered version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spiritually when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques. […]